Read those labels with care! Lately, you may have noticed a series of hieroglyphics popping up on your laundryâs care labels. Where once, sage words like, âMachine wash warm, tumble dry low,â informed your laundering decisions, now youâre greeted with a cryptic symbol.
Defining philosophy is as difficult as trying to define love. The word philosophy is not much help. Philosophy is a combination of two Greek words, philein sophia, meaning lover of wisdom. In ancient times a lover of wisdom could be related to any area where intelligence was expressed. This could be in business, politics, human relations, or carpentry and other skills.
Here is one possibility: Philosophy is love of wisdom in logic, ethics, and/or metaphysics. (But note that Greek wisdom is rational.). The rather vague definition 'love of wisdom' comes from the origin and etymology of the Greek word 'philosophy': philo (love) and sophia (wisdom).Note that the English word 'wisdom', however, is not always an appropriate rendering of the Greek word ' sophia '.rigins of the Meaning of the Word 'Philosophy'. Eduard Zeller gives as the earliest meaning of the word 'philosophy' as 'thirst for learning' . (Outlines of the History of Greek Philosophy. 13th ed., rev. Nestle, tr.